On May 20, 2010, at 1:29 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > I concur fully with Nico on this one. Further, customers requiring strict > compliance can run an S10 zone. I think we're no longer in 1980's style SVID > anymore -- already there have been other issues where we have deviated -- > from certain ZFS semantics to packaging, so that we're no longer tracking > SysV anymore.
At the time that I left Sun, you could not successfully pass the UNIX conformance tests on a system with a ZFS root unless you were in a zone on a UFS filesystem due to issues with ZFS's handling of free and allocated block counts, and issues concerning recording timestamp updates at times required by the standards. But, you also could not pass the UNIX conformance tests in a zone due to the restrictions placed on creating and accessing devices when you're not in the global zone. So, unless something has changed that has not been made visible in an open ARC case, Solaris next will not provide any way to run UNIX '98 or UNIX '03 applications. (Not to mention that there appear to be no plans to implement SUSv4 conformance to keep up with the competition.) There was a lot of hand waving and statements made that ZFS and or zones could be fixed to provide a UNIX branded environment, but no plans were ever announced to make either of those possibilities a reality. - Don > > ... ... ... > > -- Garrett _______________________________________________ opensolaris-arc mailing list [email protected]
